Such food bowls with rims were used by women, made by the Eskimo of the Lower Yukon, and traded throughout Alaska. The painted images represent hunting scenes and mythical beings. Stories relating to the designs were told when the bowls were used. (See Fitzhugh and Crowell, 1988, p. 261, no. 354; Fitzhugh and Kaplan, 1982, p. 238, no. 287).